Baker Botts’ global experience, deep and wide industry knowledge, strong contacts in markets worldwide and deep relationships with banks and investors, makes us your "go-to firm" for all segments of the digital infrastructure space around the world.
Our Digital Infrastructure team is composed of lawyers skilled in all types of digital infrastructure matters in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East, providing solutions for the most sophisticated transactions and projects. We advise institutional investors, private equity and infrastructure funds, sponsors, lenders, developers and hyperscalers across a broad array of cutting-edge digital infrastructure sectors, including data centers and related power generation facilities; subsea cables and related assets; mobile towers; communications, including both fixed line/terrestrial fiber and wireless cable networks; and satellites. Notably, our unparalleled Energy industry experience combined with our Technology focus make us perfectly positioned to meet the unique demands of the quickly evolving Digital Infrastructure industry and its voracious appetite for power.
In addition to our significant experience in M&A and finance relating to digital infrastructure transactions, we have hands-on experience in all aspects of the deployment, commercialization and operation of digital infrastructure networks and projects, including concession agreements, design-build contracts, supply (construction) contracts, high value customer agreements (including data center leases and colocation and fiber/capacity IRU (indefeasible right of use) or lease agreements), and power procurement arrangements.
The projects we are involved in require a deep knowledge of the digital infrastructure business and precise understanding of multijurisdictional regulations across various industries. We have practitioners in virtually every aspect that Digital Infrastructure transactions and projects require and work as a team across practices, offices and time zones providing support in all disciplines seamlessly. These often include real estate and construction; environmental permitting, energy regulatory and water supplies; AI governance; cybersecurity and regulation; tax and subsidy issues; and energy storage to name a few. Our teams of attorneys include highly ranked antitrust practitioners in Washington, D.C. and Brussels; one of the largest and most technically astute Intellectual Property practices of any global international law firm; cross border sanctions and trade law specialists; and highly skilled practices in data privacy, cybersecurity, and tax.
Specifically, as the need for data centers and other digital infrastructure is increasingly driven by rapid developments in technology including artificial intelligence (AI), our market-leading Digital Infrastructure practice has deep subject matter knowledge and understands the intricacies and complexities of large language models, machine learning and AI technology and the legal implications surrounding these technologies, positioning us as a market leader in providing guidance relating to the generative AI revolution.
Baker Botts. We know Digital Infrastructure.
